Filo Error Help

David Aubin daubin at actuality-systems.com
Mon Jul 12 15:45:00 CEST 2004


Here are the results:

I took my known working hard drive and stuck it in the device to test
with filo.
The results were the same!  Meaning a known working kernel & intird on 
my hard drive failed at the initrd portion, again with the crc error.

I'm now going to try a basic etherboot test without filo to see if I can
read off of the
hard drive, just as a baseline.

Any other ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave 

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 16:01, YhLu wrote:

> I mean if you build tg3—filo—ide_disk.zelf,  it will confuse the
> Etherboot. So you can only build tg3—filo.zelf or tg3—ide_disk.zelf.
> 
>  
> 
> Do you have spare IDE disk? If So format the disk into ext3 or fat
> format and copy the .elf file into it.
> 
>  
> 
> Then connect that to your MB do test.
> 
>  
> 
> hda1:/ram0_......elf
> 
>  
> 
> Regards
> 
>  
> 
> YH
> 
>  
> 
>                                    
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> From:David Aubin [mailto:daubin at actuality-systems.com] 
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 12:50 PM
> To: YhLu
> Cc: Hendricks David W.; ron minnich; LinuxBIOS
> Subject: RE: Filo Error Help
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I am unable to get my kernel & initrd off of the usb stick.  I was
> reading
> through the documents and came across this line in
> README.etherboot_in_filo: 
> You can not use filo and ide_disk at the same time.
> 
>   Can you tell me what this means?  Do I need to rebuild filo without
> IDE
> support to get USB support?
> 
>   Just to recap:  My kernel & initrd fails as the initrd execution
> complaining of
> a bad CRC when I use the elf as a payload to load with with filo.  I
> then try
> uda1:/kernel initrd=/boot/initrd root=/dev/sda1 and I get those td
> errors.  I then
> tried your ramfs.elf and I get the same behavior are my elf image with
> the CRC
> complaining when the initrd portion is executed.  Note, I have
> confirmed my elf
> works with etherboot, just not filo yet....
> 
>   The CRC error makes me think that the image did not get loaded
> correctly
> by the elf boot.  Can you confirm you used Eric's mkelfImage2-5?  Here
> is
> my dump of the readelf -a.  
> 
> ELF Header:
>   Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>   Class:                             ELF32
>   Data:                              2's complement, little endian
>   Version:                           1 (current)
>   OS/ABI:                            UNIX - System V
>   ABI Version:                       0
>   Type:                              EXEC (Executable file)
>   Machine:                           Intel 80386
>   Version:                           0x1
>   Entry point address:               0x10000
>   Start of program headers:          52 (bytes into file)
>   Start of section headers:          0 (bytes into file)
>   Flags:                             0x0
>   Size of this header:               52 (bytes)
>   Size of program headers:           32 (bytes)
>   Number of program headers:         5
>   Size of section headers:           0 (bytes)
>   Number of section headers:         0
>   Section header string table index: 0
>                                                                                                                              
> There are no sections in this file.
>                                                                                                                              
> Program Headers:
>   Type           Offset   VirtAddr   PhysAddr   FileSiz MemSiz  Flg
> Align
>   NOTE           0x0000d4 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00088 0x00088 RWE 0
>   LOAD           0x00015c 0x00010000 0x00010000 0x0559c 0x1aa24 RWE 0
>   LOAD           0x0056f8 0x00091000 0x00091000 0x00000 0x00070 RWE 0
>   LOAD           0x0056f8 0x00100000 0x00100000 0x1a952a 0x700000 RWE
> 0
>   LOAD           0x1aec22 0x00800000 0x00800000 0x2769f5 0x2769f5 RWE
> 0
>                                                                                                                              
> There is no dynamic segment in this file.
>                                                                                                                              
> There are no relocations in this file.
>                                                                                                                              
> There are no unwind sections in this file.
>                                                                                                                              
> No version information found in this file.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
> On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 15:48, YhLu wrote: 
> 
> I have got two cpus and four dimms for every CPU.
> 
>  
> 
> YH
> 
>  
> 
>                                    
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> 
> 
> From:David Aubin [mailto:daubin at actuality-systems.com] 
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 12:07 PM
> To: YhLu
> Cc: Hendricks David W.; ron minnich; LinuxBIOS
> Subject: RE: Filo Error Help
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   Yes, I did, but I don't have a DHCP environment so it kept searching
> at the DHCP phase.
> 
>   This problem is odd.  I can boot my elf fine with etherboot, but not
> with filo.  I can boot
> my kernel fine with filo, but not the initrd.  I can even boot your
> kernel of the ram.elf you
> sent me, but when it hits the initrd it fails with the same error as
> mine.
> 
>   I suspect either my filo is not configured like yours or that there
> is a problem loading a
> mulitpart elf (kernel & initrd in filo).  I'm confused as to why filo
> didn't just use the etherboot
> portion of elf_load.  It could be you were on the, "bleeding" edge?
> ;)  
> 
>   Can you tell me how much memory you have in your working system?  I
> have just
> one cpu and 512meg memory.  Curious if loading it high & it runs out
> of memory or
> something like that.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:05, YhLu wrote: 
> 
> 
> Did you try the tg3--filo.zelf I sent to you?
>  
> YH
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